Episode 1

Its more like they want you to buy more char slots and make a new character so they can say they have 21344631561371878257561341347689776717 people playing Maple Story.

you know that when they do their statistics saying such and such active players they put on the roll call events and the like (refer a friend was just before their announcement that had tons of players) to get people to log on even if they never play on the chars cause they're mules